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tmasses.off all sizes, from :those. of 
small grains to that of a piece of 
the weight of five ounces, which 
beautiful specimen is intended for 
the cabinet of a nobleman, -adored 
in this country, and not less re- 
spetted by his friends in England, 
and which, I dare to say, you 
wiil shortly have an opportunity of 
seeing in London. One piece of 
22 ounces has been taken up, and 
which, I am told, is to be presented 
to his majesty. 
In our visit to this extraordinary 
place, we were most hospitably en- 
tertained by Mr. Graham, of Bally- 
coage, whose house is not more 
than a. mile. from the gold mine: 
from him and his brothers I learnt, 
that about 25 years ago or more, 
one Dunaghoo, a school-master, re- 
sident near the place, used frequent- 
ly to entertain them with accounts 
of the richness of the valley in gold ; 
and that this man had used to go 
in the night, and break of day, 
to search for the treasure; and 
these gentlemen with their school- 
fellows, used to watch the old man 
in his excursions to the hiil, to 
frighten him, deeming him to be 
deranged in his intellects: however, 
the idea of his treasure did, at last, 
actually derange him. 
John Byrne told me, that about 
11 Or 12 years ago, when he was a 
boy, he was fishing in this brook, 
and found a piece of gold, of a 
quarter of an ounce, which was 
sold in Dublin ; but that upon one 
of his brothers telling him it 
must have been dropped into the 
brook by accident, he gave over 
all thoughts of searching fur more. 
Charles Toole, a miner at Crone. 
bane, tells me, he heard ot this 
discoverf at the time, but gave no 
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HISTORY. [3as’ 
credit to it, as he never found any~ 
goid, and lives very near the place. 
{ am credil ly informed too, that a 
goldsmith in Dublin, has every 
year, for 11 or 12 years, bought 
four or five ounces of gold, brought 
constantly by the same person, but 
not John Byrne. * 
Thus, sir, you have all I conld 
Jearn respecting thisimportant event 5 
which is at your service to lay 
before the Royal Society, shouid 
you not have been furnished with an 
account from an abler pen. 
J am, &es7e 
JOHN ELOYD.™ 
P. So. 1 am told the nama of the 
brook, where the gold is: found: is, 
in Irish, Aghios vonght. ti 
A Mineralogical'aces sunt of the Native 
Guild Lately discovered of in Ire- 
loud. Ina Letter from Abraham 
Mills; Esq. to Sir joun ate 
Bart.) Ke Be Ps RS 
Cronebane Capper Mines, near Rath~ 
drum, November 21,1795: 
SIR, y 
THE extraordinary circumstance? 
of native gold being found {n this 
vicinity, early excited my attention, 
and led me to seize the first oppor- 
tunity that presented itself, atter 
ay late arrival here, to inspe& the 
place where the discov ery) was 
made. 
I went thither on Tuesday, the 
3d of this month, with Mr. Lloyd, 
of Havodynos, and Mr. Weaver. 
The former having given you some 
account of the circumstances which 
atiended the ae discovery, and 
since he left me, a, favourable day 
having enabled ‘me to take a se- 
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